<p>The fire department said that according to the first reports, a local home and a school had been damaged. Police also sealed off a bridge cracked by the quake.</p><p>Another local official said in Damassi, a village near the epicentre, another local school had also been damaged.</p><p>"Fortunately, the teachers managed to get the children out very quickly and there were no victims," the mayor of Tyrnavos Yiannis Kokkouras told Skai TV.</p><p>Greek media reported that a disabled man trapped in his home in the village of Mesochori had been rescued. TV images showed the side wall of his house had completely collapsed.</p><p>The Civil Protection agency also reported landslides had occurred in the region, and authorities were assessing further damage.</p><p>The US Geological Survey said the earthquake, which could be felt across central and northern Greece, was magnitude 6.3.</p><p>But the Institute of Geodynamics in Athens said earlier the quake had measured at a magnitude of 6.0.</p><p>- 'Significant' aftershocks -</p><p>According to the Athens observatory, the epicentre of the quake was 21 kilometres (13 miles) south of the town of Elassona, near Larissa and was eight metres (26 feet) deep</p><p>There were at least three aftershocks following the main tremor -- including one at magnitude 4.0 -- and authorities warned there could be more.</p><p>Seismologist Gerassimos Papadopoulos warned of further "significant aftershocks", speaking on Skai radio.</p><p>However, experts stress that quake faults in the area rarely produce tremors larger than the one clocked on Wednesday.</p><p>The last major earthquake in the area was in the 18th century and was magnitude 6.2, said Manolis Skordilis, a seismologist at Thessaloniki's Aristotle University, told state agency ANA.</p><p>Greece is located on a number of fault lines, and is sporadically hit by earthquakes.</p><p>But the quakes often happen at sea and do not often kill people or cause extensive damage.</p><p>The last fatal earthquake was in October, when a magnitude 7.0 hit in the Aegean Sea between the Greek island of Samos and the city of Izmir in western Turkey.</p><p>The majority of damage was in Turkey where 114 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured.</p><p>In Greece, two teenagers were reported dead on the island of Samos.</p><p>© 2021 AFP</p>
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